“A here we are and here we go/all aboard and we’re hittin’ the road/here we go, rockin’ all over the world”
Rockin’ all over the world
Thanks
If I’m up early enough, I can stand in my garage and watch the sun rise over Mt. Hood’s peak. I don’t like to be up early enough for that, but sometimes […]
Book news, by the numbers (Or: Talk, Talk, Talk, etc.)
BOOK PARTY: Still Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. at Mississippi Pizza. Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton, and Rebecca Gates will still be joining me. It will still be […]
Springsteen: Album By Album (The Book Party)
Join me and Rebecca Gates, Jim Brunberg, Casey Neill, and Sarah Gwen and Mark Orton on Oct. 12. It’ll be fun.
He can’t throw it that far, can he?
About that time Kordell Stewart threw a football too damn far.
Happy Birthday, Bruce
Last night, I was finishing Steve Almond’s jarring rant Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, when I stopped at this: “Maybe D.H. Lawrence was right. Maybe the essential American soul is “hard, isolate, stoic, […]
Down in a ‘Dead Man’s Town’
I got to know this guy working on Springsteen: Album By Album. Sort of. We didn’t meet. Rufus “Tee-Tot” Payne has been dead a long time. He grew up in New Orleans in the […]
It was a good summer
Maybe we ain’t that young anymore
‘I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.’ Amusingly, one of the most famous lines in the history of rock criticism — a line written about Bruce Springsteen […]
If You Take a 4 year old to see Lucinda Williams at the zoo
If you take a 4 year old to see Lucinda Williams at the zoo, she’s going to want to see the animals first. When you take her to see the animals, she’s […]
